Becca yshtola by applejack

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and life-drain combo deck commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary strategy aims to control the pace of the game through pillowfort taxes, efficient countermagic, and versatile removal while generating massive card advantage and chip damage. Y'shtola turns every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater into a 2-damage burn to all opponents and 2 life gained, easily triggering her end-step card draw. Auras like Curiosity turn each burn trigger into a three-card draw burst. The deck smoothly transitions into the midgame using heavy draw engines like The One Ring and Black Market Connections. It finishes the game decisively on Turn 6 by assembling an infinite life-drain loop with Exquisite Blood and either Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, or Enduring Tenacity. Opponents are systematically constrained by Teferi, Time Raveler and defensive enchantments until the lethal combo closes the match.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Destined Black Mage
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed